Rise Against - Black Masks and Gasoline Meaning
Black Masks and Gasoline Lyrics
Doesn't mean you're alive
Or that you really live
This life here has taken its toll
And she just doesn't know
How much more she can give
But here, at the top of the world
I raise my hands and I clench my...
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Tim says in one of his live shows "this song is about burning it down, and building it back up again" if you'd pay attention to the songs lyrics you'd understand how it's about that.
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So to me, this is about how people think that "This world is somethin' that you must impress" but we "couldn't care less". and how no one cares who you are till you're standing on the top of the world, then they "demand the answers with flips of a switch" suddenly you're someone. and how he "has an American dream what involves black masks and gasoline", again, this is just me. but i think he's talking about how he wants to get rid of people who are like that, but the people he wants to keep, give them a black mask so they survive. No one has written on this one so i just thought id give what i think :)
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